5. Era of the American Revolution (1765-1783)
Adams, John, Abigail Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. Edited by Lester J. Capon. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. (The earliest letter is dated May 16, 1777.) RVS: E 322 .A4 1988
Adlum, John. Memoirs of the Life of John Adlum in the Revolutionary War. Edited by Howard H. Peckham. Chicago, Ill.: The Caxton Club, 1968. (Author, a Pensylvanian, was private in Patriot army. Entered active service, July 1776. Captured by British in November, after witnessing campaign in which British captured New York City . Released early in 1777. Saw no more service. Personal glimpses of Nathaniel Greene, George Washington, Ethan Allen, etc.) RVS: E 275 .A3 A3 1968
Beloff, Max, ed. The Debate on the American Revolution, 1761-1783. 3rd ed. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Sheridan House, 1989. CYP: E 211 .D33 1989
Blacksnake, Governor. Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as Told to Benjamin Williams. Edited by Thomas S. Abler. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. (Personal narrative by a Seneca Indian.) RGC: E 99 .S3 B 533 1989.
Burke, Edmund. On the American Revolution: Selected Speeches and Letters. (Harper Torchbooks.) Edited by Elliott R. Barkan. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. (Author was a member of British Parliament and political thinker who was critical of British policies toward the colonies.) EVC: E 211 .925 1966
Commager, Henry Steele and Richard B. Morris, eds. The Spirit of Seventy-Six. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. (Excerpts from personal narratives and other primary sources.) NRG: E 203 .C69 1967 CYP E 203 .C69 1975
Dann, John C., ed. The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence. (Clements Library Bicentennial Studies.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. NRG: E 275 .A2 R48
Dohla, Johann Conrad. A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution. Edited by W. Freiherr von Waldenfels. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990. RGC: E 268 .D6413 1990
Drinker, Elizabeth. The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker. Edited by Elaine Forman Crane. 3 vols. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991. (Contents: Vol. 1, 1758-1795. Reveals something of the life of the Quakers in Philadelphia throughout the period covered and gives a picture of women’s role in the society of the times. Drinker was pro-British in the American Revolution and was opposed to slavery.) RGC: F 158.9 .F89 D75 1991
Dwyer, William M. The Day is Ours! November 1776-January 1777: A Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. New York: Viking Press, 1983. (Book consists of quotations from numerous primary source documents, tied together by the author’s narrative.) RGC: E 241 .T7 D88 1983
Greenman, Jeremiah. Diary of A Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783: An Annotated Edition of the Military Journal of Jeremiah Greenman. Edited by Robert C. Bray and Paul E. Bushnell. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1978. (Author, native of Rhode Island, served in the war as far north as Quebec, as far south as Philadelphia. Was in British prisons twice. Was at Valley Forge, Monmouth, the Battle of Rhode Island, and Morristown.) PIN: E 275 .G78 1978
Hart, Albert Bushnell. Causes of the American Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts. Westwood, Mass.: 1992. NRG, RGC, RVS: E 210 .H37 1992
Humphreys, David. David Humphreys’ Life of General Washington: With George Washington’s “Remarks.” Ed. by Rosemarie Zagarri. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. CYP: E 312 .H94 1991
Hyneman, Charles S., and Donald S. Lutz, eds. American Political Writing During the Founding Era, 1760-1805. 2 vols. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1983. RVS: JK 113 .A716 1983
Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1984. (Merrill D. Peterson wrote the notes and selected the texts.) RGC: E 302 .J442 1984
Kaminski, John P. and Jill Adair McCaughan, eds. A Great and Good Man: George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1989. PIN: E 312.62 .G63 1989
Library of Congress. Legislative Reference Service. Documents Illustrative of the Formation of the Union of the American States. Edited by Charles C. Tansill. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1927. RGC: JK 11 1927
Martin, Joseph Plumb. Ordinary Courage: The Revolutionary War Adventures of Private Joseph Plumb Martin. Edited by James Kirby Martin. St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1993. RGC: E 275 .M38 1993
Martin, Joseph Plumb. Yankee Doodle Boy: A Young Soldier’s Adventures in the American Revolution,Told by Himself. Edited by George F. Scheer. New York: W. R. Scott, 1964. RBN: E 275 .M388 1964
Meltzer, Milton, ed. The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words, 1750-1800. New York: Crowell, 1987. (Letters, diaries, memoirs, interviews, ballads, newspaper articles, and speeches depict life and events in the American colonies in the second half of the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on the Revolutionary War.) RVS: E 208 .A445 1987
Morgan, Edmund S., ed. Prologue to Revolution: Sources and Documents on the Stamp Act Crisis, 1764-1766. New York: W. W. Norton, 1973. NRG: E 215.2 .M57
Morison, Samuel Eliot, ed. Sources and Documents Illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the Formation of the Federal Constitution. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. RGC: E 203 .M86 1965
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense. 3rd ed. Cutchogue, N.Y.: Buccaneer, 1976. EVC, CYP NRG, RGC, RVS: E 211 .P1455 1976b. (Other editions, with other publication data, are at PIN, RGC, and RVS.)
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense and Other Political Writings. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953. RGC: JC 177 .A5 1953a
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense and the Crisis. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960. NRG: E 211 .P356 1960
Paine, Thomas. The Thomas Paine Reader. Edited by Michael Foot and Isaac Kramnick. London, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1987. (Includes Common Sense, The American Crisis.) NRG, RGC, RVS: JC 177 .A3 1987
Paine, Thomas, and Thomas Jefferson. Paine and Jefferson on Liberty. Edited by Lloyd S. Kramer. New York: Continuum, 1988. (Contents: Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America; Paine, Common Sense; Jefferson, Declaration of Independence; Paine, The American Crisis (Part VII); Jefferson, Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia; Jefferson, letters to James Madison; Paine, The Rights of Man (Part II); Jefferson, letter to Thomas Paine; Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.) RVS: JC 585 .P25 1988
Peckham, Howard Henry, ed. Sources of American Independence: Selected Manuscripts from the Collection of the William L. Clements Library. 2 vols. (Clements Library Bicentennial Studies.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. (Contents, Vol. 1: “Confronting Rebellion: Private Correspondence of Lord Barrington with General Gage, 1765-1775;” “William Knox Asks What Is Fit to Be Done with America;” “The Clinton-Parker Controversy over British Failure at Charleston and Rhode Island;” “Journal of the Brunswick Corps in America under General von Riedesel.” Contents, Vol. 2: “An Officer out of his Time: Correspondence of Major Patrick Ferguson, 1779-1780;” “After Yorktown: The Wayne-Green Correspondence;” “Puritan Revolutionary: Selected Letters of Edmund Quincy;” ” and “Vengeance: The Court-Martial of Captain Richard Lippincott, 1782.” RVS: E 203 .M53 1978
[Research Publications.] The American Revolution. (Research Publications’ American Journey.) Woodbridge, Conn.: Research Publications: Primary Source Media, 1995. (A computer database on CD-ROM. A fully indexed and searachable collection of primary sources related to the revolutionary period of American history.) RVS: On index tables. (See a reference librarian or other LRC personnel for assistance.)
Sandoz, Ellis, ed. Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805. Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1991. RGC: BR 115 .P7 P53 1991
Schecter, Stephen L., ed. Roots of the Republic: American Founding Documents Interpreted. Madison, Wis.: Madison House,1990. PIN: E 187 .R66 1990
Scheer, George F., and Hugh F. Rankin, eds. Rebels & Redcoats: The American Revolution through the Eyes of Those who Fought and Lived It. New York: Da Capo, 1987. NRG: E 275 .A2 R43 1987
Smith, Paul Hubert, ed. Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774-1789. Vol. 9. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982. (Covers period from February 1 to May 31, 1778. The complete 20-vol. set is in the PCL Stacks at UT. The call number is the same as at ACC.) RGC: JK 1033 .L47 V.9.
Washington, George. George Washington: A Collection. Compiled and edited by W. B. Allen. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Classics, 1988. (Documents 12-93 deal the the Revolution and its immediate aftermath.) RVS: E 312.72 1988
Wasmus, J. F. An Eyewitness Account of the American Revolution and New England Life: The Journal of J. F. Wasmus, German Company Surgeon, 1776-1783. Edited by Helga Doblin and Mary C. Lynn. (Contributions in Military Studies.) New York: Greenwood, 1990. (Diary of a physician to German mercenary troops serving in the British army.) RVS: E 268 .W2 1990
Weslager, C. A. The Stamp Act Congress: With an Exact Copy of the Complete Journal. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1976. [Note: Only the journal of the congress is a primary source.] PIN: E 215.2 .W47 1976
Wheeler, Richard, comp. Voices of 1776. New York: Crowell, 1776. (Book consists of quotations from numerous primary source documents, tied together by the author’s narrative.) RGC: E 203 .W45
Wood, Gordon S., ed. The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820. Rev. ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990. NRG, RGC, RVS: E 164 .R57 1990
Wright, Esmond, ed. The Fire of Liberty. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983. NRG, RGC: E 210 .F574 1983